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Vietnamese
Etymology
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Particularly: “The second element is likely the same as in ngoại ô (“suburbs”). It was spelled as 塢 in texts, but I'm not sure it's actually 塢 (MC 'uX) etymologically or just a case where there's a convenient semantically matching graph at hand. Tonal correspondence isn't great though.”
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Nowadays, this term seems to refer to gates of the fortified core of historical Hanoi. Some of these old city gates lent their names to modern toponyms like Ô Chợ Dừa.
Pronunciation
Noun
cửa ô
- (historical) city gate